Application test :
Professor Liu
fromShandong Agricultural
University did an application test as below:
Two teams chickens feed for five
months
1. one team ***0 chickens, dried
yellow mealworm feed
2. another team ***0 chickens,
dried fishmeal feed
Test result :
1. The team feed yellow mealworm,
its survival rate improved by 5%, weight gain rate improved by
*3%
2. The team feed yellow mealworm,
average chick save RMB 0.*0 medicine fee.Â
For yellow mealworm contained
antibacterial peptide, which is natural formation antibacterial
material of animal defense system, able to promote animal grow,
decrease fatality rate, a natural material to replace
antibiotics. So breeding plants and
farmers are willing to accept such natural nutritious
feed.
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Animals who eat
mealworms
Birds:Chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl,
peafowl, quail, chukar, pheasant, bluebirds, songbirds, and well
most birds!
Mammals:Hedgehogs (mine love the adult
mealworm beetles too!), shrews, moles, voles, bats, rats, and
other mammals that eat insects.
Reptiles:Aquatic
turtles of all sorts, box turtles, tortoises, sailfin lizards,
chameleons, fringe-toed lizards, basilisks, water dragons,
anoles, and well most reptiles that eat bugs!
Amphibians:Frogs,
toads, newts, and salamanders of all sorts!
Fish:Archers, goldfish, piranha,
arrowana, and any big fish that eats bug meat !
Potential
Application Value
Yellow mealworm could further
processed into insect
protein powder to substitute traditional fishmeal, completely
solve animal food medicine residual problem and heavy metal
pollution problem.
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For along with rapid development of
animal husbandry countries, animal protein feed resources comes
into crisis. The tradition fishmeal is gradually exhausted along
with marine resources, its output decrease by *0% a year.
Moreover, due to marine environment pollution, as fishmeal
production raw material, such mixed fishes contain more heavy
metal, exceed standard already, which has been an important
factor to hazard animal food safety.
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Thus animal husbandry farmers in
many countries, taking account of animal food safety and own
economic interests, turn their choice of animal protein feed
resource from fishmeal to insect powder. Another reason,
antibacterial peptide contained by insects, which is natural
formation antibacterial material of animal defense system, a
natural material to replace antibiotics, sulfa and hormone drugs
into animal feed, an active substance to eliminate animal food
drugs residual.
